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By making it inexpensive to process cotton, it increased the demand for cotton, which increased the demand for slaves to grow cotton.
Cotton had a major impact on slavery especially after Eli Whitney invented the Cotton Gin. As to Westward expansion farmers bought land in Alabama and Mississippi on which to farm cotton.
Cotton was a prized crop in the American colonies and later in the United States. There was a worldwide demand for this crop and it was used to make all types of clothing. The US Southern climate was ideal for growing cotton and much of it was purchased by the Northern industrial US States and in England. The demand seemed to have no limits. When the cotton gin was invented in allowed for an easier way to remove seeds from cotton. More cotton was produced and sold worldwide as its demand seemed never to cease. With that said, cotton became a boom crop because of the demand of it in textile mills in the US and in Europe.
they had to get more slaves
The Cotton Gin!
By making it inexpensive to process cotton, it increased the demand for cotton, which increased the demand for slaves to grow cotton.
3. Why did people, particularly farmers, demand regulation of the railroads in the late 19th century?
Cotton from the south(apex)
Technology made Georgia more money, Cotton gin made it easier to produce, Railroads made it easier to transport goods.
A time when cotton is in big demand. This happened in the Southern states after the invention of the cotton-gin, when they were able to supply the huge worldwide demand for cotton, and that region very quickly turned into a cotton empire.
prompt:how did the railroads impact society, was it a positive impact or negative ?explain
"ahead of demand"? Question 2: Was government assistance necessary, i.e. ... d. i.e. It all comes down to what did railroads do for society .... Customers? Maybe. 2. Railroads? Many economists think so. • Government regulators can be ...
The Cotton Gin merely raised the demand for cotton as it was a machine that quickly separated the cotton from the seed. But what the Cotton Gin couldn't do was pick the cotton. Paying people to pick the cotton was now even less cost efficient...
Seperated the seeds from the cotton.
farmers used them to move cotton.
farmers used them to move cotton.
The invention of the cotton gin made it easier and faster to process cotton, leading to increased demand for cotton production. This demand resulted in the expansion of cotton plantations, which in turn increased the need for labor, leading to the use of more enslaved people to work on the plantations to meet the growing demand for cotton.